PUBG creator’s new survival game enters open beta

Brendan ‘PlayerUnknown' Greene, the creative mind who kickstarted the entire battle royale genre with the Arma 3 mod PlayerUnknown's Battle Royale, followed by PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, is back with a very different kind of challenge. His new studio, PlayerUnknown Productions, has surprise-launched an open beta for its upcoming hardcore survival game, Prologue: Go Wayback!, and it's available to play right now.

Prologue sounds simple on paper. Your only objective is to survive the wilderness and find a weather station marked on your map. In practice, however, it's a brutal and unforgiving experience, as players must contend with sudden, extreme weather events like blizzards and thunderstorms, manage hunger and thirst, and navigate a massive 8×8 km map with nothing but a compass and a paper map. No waypoints or minimaps can help you, just like in real life.

The game's most ambitious feature is its technology. Every single time you start a new run, Prologue procedurally generates an entirely new and unique map. While the biome remains a vast, forested region inspired by real-world landscape data from Czechia, the layout of rivers, cliffs, cabins, and your final objective will be different every time.

After a period of relatively quiet, closed testing, the developer is now opening the doors to everyone. As first spotted by PCGamesN, Prologue has quietly entered open beta and is now free to download on both Steam and the Epic Games Store.

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KitGuru says: Do you like hardcore survival games? Will you try out PlayerUnknown's new game during its open beta, or do you prefer to wait for the final release?

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